About the icons: The beer is tip link, if a tech saves ya some money buy em a 6 pack. The small green square=personal message. The green dot is a link to my web page on appliance repair and other general BS I love to post. The letter sends me email.I love fan letters! LOL

What you should do is offer free diagnosis on stuff you don't specialize in and if you cannot fix it you don't charge them for looking either. This will gain you some experience.

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About the icons: The beer is tip link, if a tech saves ya some money buy em a 6 pack. The small green square=personal message. The green dot is a link to my web page on appliance repair and other general BS I love to post. The letter sends me email.I love fan letters! LOL

You MUST gain the confidence to work on other brands or you won't survive. There is not that much difference. Service manuals are available and the knowledge from this forum will give you the chance to study the machine and the symptoms before you go to the customers house. If you only work on Whirlpool brands and only washers and dryers you will be getting only part time work. You have to go for it. cmon, jump in the pool.

If you come across an unfamiliar brand get a model number, take some photos and ask us. Post what ya got and we all get a chance to learn together. Stuff is changing all the time. What makes this forum so good is we all exchange stuff we learn on here to empower each other.

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About the icons: The beer is tip link, if a tech saves ya some money buy em a 6 pack. The small green square=personal message. The green dot is a link to my web page on appliance repair and other general BS I love to post. The letter sends me email.I love fan letters! LOL

As far as learning other brands, buying broken appliances to fix or offering free removal of broken appliances can also help. That's what I've been doing for over a year now. There's less stress involved and you can learn at your own pace. I don't see a ton of GE appliances here so I got a GE washer in the other day and took it completely apart and then back together just for the experience.

You can even do the used appliance thing to help bring in income while you build your customer base. I've also had people call looking for used appliances and then after talking to them for a bit it would turn into a service call. People seeking used appliances are many times more willing to get their appliance fixed if they know it will cost them less to fix it then buy a used appliance.

There are local companies that send out coupon books through the mail. They have deals on pizza, mufflers, brake jobs etc.When I first started out i ran a dryer tune up offer. A special price or sometimes money off with coupon. I also advertised at the bowling alley. The add was on the screen where bowlers looked at the scores. Local restaurants also have a newsletter on the table that customers can read while they are waiting for their food. These are cheap ways to advertise and I did them all.